141 Glenelly Road, Plumbridge, Strabane, Co. Tyrone, BT79 8BG

141 Glenelly Road is a two-storey, three-bay house located on the south side of Glenelly Road in Plumbridge. It probably dates from the early nineteenth century and was later raised and formalised during the late nineteenth or early twentieth centuries. The house represents a type of farmhouse once common in rural locations.

The building is rectangular on plan, facing north, and is constructed of lime-washed rubble stone with a smooth rendered plinth course. The pitched roof is natural slate with black clay ridge tiles and saddleback cement skews. There is a lime-rendered chimneystack to the right gable and a modern cement-rendered stack to the left gable. Rainwater goods are absent.

The principal elevation faces north and is symmetrically arranged with a central gabled windbreak porch detailed as a house with timber-sheeted apex and entrance door. There are three bays, with an opening to each floor at each bay. The windows are 2/2 timber sashes with ogee horns and concrete sills, though uPVC replacement windows are present to the ground floor front elevation. The east gable is abutted by a single-storey outbuilding and is otherwise blank. This outbuilding is detailed as a house but has a pitched corrugated metal roof, a window opening to the north, and a timber-sheeted door to the gable.

The south elevation has irregular openings: three to the ground floor (at different heights, including one 1/1 diminished sash and one boarded) and two to the first floor with stone sills. The west gable is blank.

The house retains most of its original sash windows and other detailing both externally and internally. The ground floor comprises a kitchen and room, with a bedroom on the first floor.

To the rear are a pair of roughly coursed random rubble stone outbuildings bounding a field lane, with corrugated iron roofs partially intact. The doors and windows are missing, with openings formed by stone lintels. The western outbuilding is split level, with a central raised section accessed externally by a set of stone steps containing a store to the lower level. The eastern outbuilding is single storey. Concrete block outbuildings are located to the north.

Physical inspection together with map evidence suggests the house has been extended and perhaps raised. There is a difference in the roofing materials to the rear pitch and a visible seam in the rear elevation which may indicate the enlargement of a smaller structure during the late nineteenth or early twentieth centuries.

Buildings are shown on the site on the first edition Ordnance Survey map of 1832 and appear to have survived to the present day. Additional buildings appear to the west on the third edition map (1905-6) and to the east on the fourth edition map (1953). In Griffith's Valuation (1856-64), the buildings are listed as two separate entries—houses, offices and land—valued at 10 shillings each and leased from Major Humphreys. The occupiers were Michael Gormley and Michael Carr. The houses remained in the Gormley and Carr families throughout the period of revisions (1864-1924). After 1908, they became the owners in fee. In 1933 Neal Gormley is recorded as the owner in fee of the present two-storey house. A second dwelling on the plot, a single-storey thatched house, was by 1943 in ruins and has been deleted.

The house is sheltered from the road and surrounded by mature trees. It is accessed from the north by a grassed lane and is set in a yard which is now grassed over. The rural setting and well-proportioned and detailed outbuildings to the rear enhance the character of the house and contribute to its interest.